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In May 2024, MLB finally added Negro League stats to their baseball rankings. And in doing so Josh Gibson became the major leagues’ all-time batting leader — 77 years after his death in 1947.

But how has this happened more than three-quarters of a century after his death?

Stephen J Nesbitt writes, Philippe Fenner illustrates.

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